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mircea_popescu: of the people who genuinely live here and bear us passports, the majority is the us embassy residentura.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "expats" are generally dorks come here a week-two at a time for the hookers.
mircea_popescu: cr regularily has a major euro excedent and dollar deficit (as it imports cars and shit from mexico for usd)
mircea_popescu: most of the cr tourism receipts are euros brought by zee germans, followed by euros brought by the azns (who, weirdly, tend to use euros more than dollars).
mircea_popescu: no, the problem is the unhappy meeting of a deeply rural population with the chinese empire.
mircea_popescu: us expats are to the last man poor fucks. their impact is ~0, you should see how happy 60yo is to have the attention of 19yo nicaraguan
mircea_popescu: much like sicilian dialect to this day puts the verb in last place, "siciliano sono"
mircea_popescu: sort-of the sicily of rome. by 2500 they'll still have the most period-accurate pantsuit worn on the streets
mircea_popescu: they have BRAND NAME cheap polyester chinese shirts. thereby... VEHEMENT OPULENCE.
mircea_popescu: oh. well pure cotton can't be used for clothing!!! bitch... this shirt on me, see it ? this is 100% cotton!
mircea_popescu: "o, sure, we got that!" dood comes back, 65% polyester, 35% cotton.
mircea_popescu: linen ? "linen can't be used for textiles because it frays" "your mom also frays. how about cotton ?"
mircea_popescu: i'm like "silk" dude recognizes the word, it's like i went to fish shop in 1980. "oh, THAT is what we don't have here!!! i know what it is! it's the thing this shop doesn'thave!"
mircea_popescu: do you know there is not.one.single.shop selling pure natural fiber shirts in all of costa rica ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow nobody manages to feel even vaguely responsible for all the gains they DIDN'T realize ; much like that famous anon whore, "let me tell you what i want in exchange for what i'm willing to do" cuz it's like poorocracy over here or something now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow if the usg website comes up with "it's illegal to smoke", they stop smoking, AS FUCKING IF. whereas when the republic orders, they "have options".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: all these idiots will be whining -- plenty of them are already whining -- about "unfairness" and "wealth distribution". the part where it's the just desserts for their own mendacity conveniently omitted.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not to mention the hordes of "digital artists" who hallucinate the ridoinculous notion that they have the option to not work for minigame.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other news, bitcoin getting close to 10k means that the
http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/ offer stands at just about $200 worth for a half hour's work if that. nevertheless, something to the tune of four billion females the world over perceive, entirely hallucinatorily, that they have the option to eschew this.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you look, the brick is just cut to a concrete arch. faux.
mircea_popescu: and they're all inhabited, the herd lives in the basement usually.
mircea_popescu: the guys start building them, then the money runs out.
mircea_popescu: when it fails as you want it to fail it's called "working".
mircea_popescu: if we could say how shit fails we'd be way ahead in the game. problem with failing shit is that it fails as it wants to fail.
mircea_popescu: which is why the whole "that's not how towers fall" experts are so laughable. bitch...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you fail to maintain a steel structure for long enough, it will rust in weak spots and bend under own weight.
mircea_popescu: not sold because... they're poor and stupid, basically.
mircea_popescu: eh, the locals are retarded. there's a building right downtown, huge, ancient, derelict, standing there for decade+.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems to boil down to approx discussion here.
mircea_popescu: whole point is to light something useless by burning something useless.
mircea_popescu: you can't light a cigar without "inhaling", goes right into it
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should put up a video lighting cigars with benjies or something.
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it, too. let the pretend sovereigns pay for the cost of circulating monetary mass.
mircea_popescu: (but it's cracking ; for instance the supposedly captured fmi is putting out notions of how countries should probably monetize bitcoin rather than other countries currencies. so dixit lagarde. who, i suppose, has been raping hotel maids in new york according to the usg suto dept.)
mircea_popescu: you'd think it's sheer postmodernism, thief yelling thief and the dudes sitting atop piles of unbacked paper derping about how bitcoin is "risky because not backed by anything"
mircea_popescu: diana_coman ayup. but it's funny, you know, dude in a toyota going "hey mister, shitty imports are not reliable cars".
mircea_popescu: "bitch, really, what is the united states dobaloo backed by ?!" "the full faith and credit of the us government!!" "you mean like... the webpage by that name ?!" "no no there's so much more to it than that!!1" "im sure."
mircea_popescu: somehow it's 2012 again and the item not backed by anything is bitcoin, not the various fiats.
mircea_popescu: in other fake news / mass media lulz, i read in today's la nacion that bitcoin went over 8k usd, and that various nobodies leeching the tax chest opine as to how "items not backed by anything are risky".
mircea_popescu: the cnat raed crowd of brogrammers didn't get ONE thing wrong. they got a whole list of things wrong (that they think is one single thing, but then again primitive man also has a single word for enemy, be it wolbachia, wolves or western men.
mircea_popescu: if it's worth writing, it's worth writing well. if it's work writing well, it's worth publishing well. if it's worth publishing well, it's worth reading. and so on.
mircea_popescu: do what i did when i leaked teh wikileaks, set it to publish one per hour or such
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda dun see the "sorry, avion ti gori" folk upholding any rulings.
mircea_popescu: dood ~could~ have just sat his ass down in belgrade, bussed the hos in from prague
mircea_popescu: kjj you can now self-voice btw. send !!up to deedbot in a pm whenever needed.
mircea_popescu: few people can get through any social call without tv support. which is how they ended up invading bars etc.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "come play with me" (1977) is such a confusing piece of nonsense...